Storyline
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Directors
Cast
Michael Albala, Alex Veadov, Rob Lowe, Jena Malone, David St. James, Geoffrey Blake, Timothy McNeil, William B. Kaplan, Ming Lo, Mark Thomason, Max Martini, Pamela Fischer, David Morse, Leo Lee, Angela Bassett, John Hurt, Jay Leno, Larry King, James Woods, Marc Macaulay, William Fichtner, Valorie Armstrong, Holly Cross Vagley, Jodie Foster, Tucker Smallwood, Jake Busey, Mak Takano, Steven Ford, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Thomas Garner , William Jordan, Kristoffer Ryan Winters, Saemi Nakamura, J.A. Preston, Robin Gammell, Neal Matarazzo, Yuji Okumoto, Christopher Boyer, Henry Strozier, Rob Elk, Sami Chester, Haynes Brooke, Laura Elena Surillo, Michael Chaban, Conroy Chino, Dan Gifford, Vance Valencia, Donna Kelley, Leon Harris, Claire Shipman, Behrooz Afrakhan, Maria Celeste Arraras, Tabitha Soren, Geraldo Rivera, Ian Whitcomb, Ned Netterville, Alexander Zemeckis, Janie Peterson, Philippe Bergeron, Jennifer Balgobin, Anthony Hamilton, Rebecca T. Beucler, Jeffery Thomas Johnson, Gerry Griffin, Brian Alston, José Rey, Todd Patrick Breaugh, Alice Kushida, Richardson Morse, Seiji Okamura, Hiroshi Tom Tanaka, Catherine Dao, Jim Hild, William L. Thomas, Diego Montoya, Jonathan Adler, Robert Aguilar Jr., Mark Bailey, Matt Bennett, Tony Boldi, Mark Byrne, Candice T. Cain, Aixa Clemente, Derrick Damions, Elaina Erika Davis, Joey Dente, Michael Egan, Jeff Elmore, Carl Gilliard, Sunshine Logroño, Denise Loveday, Cassidy McMillan, Molly Mueller, Paul L. Nolan, Marisa Petroro, Errica Poindexter, Frank Principe, Leo Rogstad, Russell Sanderlin Sr., Frank Silva, John A. Taylor, Todd Thompson, Cenk Uygur, Eric Alan Wendell, Delaney Williams
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Reviews
100
ReelViews
Contact is that rare big-budget motion picture that places ideas, characters, and plot above everything else.
80
Empire
Contact delivers on more than a pure visual level, reiterating the idea that greatest progress is made taking "small steps" towards enlightenment.
75
Christian Science Monitor
Its discussions don't go very deep, and moviegoers with strong religious values may wonder why it comes down for humanism over spirituality.
70
The New York Times
The movie, adapted from a novel by Carl Sagan, presents one long chain of teasingly open-ended questions about reason versus faith and technology versus religion, and ends up tentatively embracing mysticism over rationality.
70
Salon
Faithful to Sagan's brand of popularized science, the film never reaches beyond Hollywood spectacle and sentimentality.
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